- Collection:
- March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- The Freedom House on fire, 1967
- Creator:
- Groppi, James, 1930-1985
Milwaukee Police - Publisher:
- James Groppi Photographs, James Groppi Papers, 1956-1978, Wisconsin Historical Society
- Date of Original:
- 1967-08-29
- Subject:
- Milwaukee (Wis.)--Race relations
Marches
Police brutality
Police
Freedom House (Monroe Youth Action Committee (N.C.)) - Location:
- United States, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, 15th Street Freedom House
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Father Groppi's annotation, "The Milwaukee police burning the Freedom House in the summer of 1967. The neighborhood was tear gassed and young people had to flee from the house." This image appeared on the front page of the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper on August 30, 1967.
Grayscale - Metadata URL:
- https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/march/id/662
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/iiif/2/march:662/manifest.json
- Rights Holder:
- The Wisconsin Historical Society. Used with permission.
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Extent:
- Photographic prints
- Original Collection:
- James Groppi Papers, 1956-1978
James Groppi Photographs
Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Center. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
March On Milwaukee - Civil Rights History Project - Contributing Institution:
- Golda Meir Library. Special Collections
- Rights:
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